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Intervista a Margaret Doody

Giusy Randazzo: Professor Doody, your novels have an enormous success not only because they deal with gripping mystery stories but also because the reader feels culturally enriched from the reading who, at first, unconsciously becomes in almost no time at all a little expert of the Athenian daily life of the IVth Century A.D. How did you get the idea of using detective Aristotle in the series  of mystery stories?

Margaret Doody: One spring evening  in Oxford  I was reading quickly through Aristotle’s Rhetoric, in preparation for talk with MA student later in the week. When I at … Continua a leggere »